No. By removing the directory entry completely and marking the inodeunused.

By the way, there used to be undelete tool for ext2. It created a listof deleted inodes with correct stat, but no names, only their inodenumbers. You could then pick the corect inode and give it a name, thusbringing it back to life. Since ext3 is just ext2 with journal, I guessit might work. It existed as a standalone tool and integrated tomidnight commander.

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